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PERFECTION SALAD
Book • 1986
Laura Shapiro's Perfection Salad examines the transformation of American cooking during the Progressive Era, when domestic science and nutritional reform reshaped household food practices.
The book traces how measurement, standardization, and scientific ideas changed women's roles in the kitchen and led to new recipes and cookbooks.
Shapiro explores cultural debates about modernity, gender, and consumption through culinary examples like the salad, revealing broader social changes.
Her narrative blends archival research and social history to show how cooking became professionalized and moralized.
The book is celebrated for illuminating the intersections of food, gender, and science in American history.
The book traces how measurement, standardization, and scientific ideas changed women's roles in the kitchen and led to new recipes and cookbooks.
Shapiro explores cultural debates about modernity, gender, and consumption through culinary examples like the salad, revealing broader social changes.
Her narrative blends archival research and social history to show how cooking became professionalized and moralized.
The book is celebrated for illuminating the intersections of food, gender, and science in American history.
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Merry White
Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry White, "Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture" (U California Press, 2023)
